Buying a new laptop- Apple?

[GreekGodX]

Originally Posted by 68TriShield

I would let you test drive it if I could. Very fast from start up to access. Access meaning anywhere you want to go. My youngest has a gaming pc with Vista.
Even after a good friend and botl(I.T. guy)lopped a good amount of BS off the system,it still is nowhere near as easy and pleasing to navigate as this 7.

Kind in mind this is coming from a computer idiot <---

Oh come on Dave! You don't want to just ship me your laptop for a week

Let me know more when you start getting more use out of it. Even if you are a computer idiot, I appreciate any feedback. I'm no Bill Gates either

[newcigarz]

Mac, 'nuf said.

[GreekGodX]

Originally Posted by Blueface

With the Mac, my reasons were a whole lot different.
I was tired of crashes. I was tired of viruses. I was tired of a system/companies that wiped their butts with you once you bought it and you had to be resourceful to figure it all out. Apple makes it easy and Apple doesn't leave you out in the street. They proved that to me with the way they resolved my initial issues and the way I can get any support video of any kind that I may need to learn any aspect of their device of operating system. To some, not needed. To me, was worth a whole lot more than I paid.

The analogy of why pay more can be made with anything. Value is what the person whose wallet is paying for it perceives it. All a matter of what side of the fence you are on.

This is exactly how I feel. Owning other apple products (ipods) their customer service is fantastic and not from India (damn dell :mad). My limited use on friends Apple laptops and the Apple desktops at school has been great. I just want to make the best and most educated decision.

Originally Posted by newcigarz

Mac, 'nuf said.

Possibly the answer. Anybody here run OS X on a windows laptop/desktop? This could be a very interesting option.

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by GreekGodX

This is exactly how I feel. Owning other apple products (ipods) their customer service is fantastic and not from India (damn dell :mad). My limited use on friends Apple laptops and the Apple desktops at school has been great. I just want to make the best and most educated decision.



Possibly the answer. Anybody here run OS X on a windows laptop/desktop? This could be a very interesting option.

I've seen it on netbooks.

There was a thread recently (within the past 3 months) in the GD about it.

[T.G]

Originally Posted by GreekGodX

This is exactly how I feel. Owning other apple products (ipods) their customer service is fantastic and not from India (damn dell :mad).

FWIW, Gateway support is still in the US - it has never left the country AFAIK.

Originally Posted by GreekGodX

Possibly the answer. Anybody here run OS X on a windows laptop/desktop? This could be a very interesting option.

Yeah, toyed with it a few years ago. Royal PITA. Simpler to just buy a Mac and run bootcamp if thats what you want (not as cheap, but much less headaches). Maybe things have gotten better since then but still not worth it to me.

[AD720]

Originally Posted by GreekGodX

Possibly the answer. Anybody here run OS X on a windows laptop/desktop? This could be a very interesting option.

Posting from a Dell Mini 9 running a fully patched, retail, vanilla version of OS 10.5.8 Leopard.

[GreekGodX]

Originally Posted by AD720

Posting from a Dell Mini 9 running a fully patched, retail, vanilla version of OS 10.5.8 Leopard.

any complaints? I kinda want more details then that, please

[AD720]

Originally Posted by GreekGodX

any complaints? I kinda want more details then that, please

None. It does what it does. It's a netbook, so small screen, no optical drive, not a super-powerful computer but it's great for surfing the web, email and it is incredibility portable. I will say that OS X runs much better on this than XP or Linux (Ubuntu) did.

There are other machines that will run OS X but none as seamlessly as the Dell Mini series.

[WyoBob]

Something no one has mentioned---didn't I read here on CA that Apple won't work on computer's owned by smokers as they consider the smoke residue a "bio hazard"?